Kanichiro Sato Movies

Somewhere on the coast of Taiwan is Hotel Iris, a mouldering seaside establishment run by a cold and thrifty Japanese woman (Nahana) and her lonely...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase

Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a...

Genre: History

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yutaka Takenouchi

Genre: Action

Cast: Kousei Yuki

Two rogue vagrants make their living as “manure men”, turning the waste from the tenement toilets into fertiliser sold to local farmers....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haru Kuroki

Osanai Kei enjoys a peaceful and happy life with his wife Osanai Kozue and daughter Osanai Ruri, but his wife and daughter die in an accident. Osanai...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yo Oizumi

Matagi is a group of hunters who lives in the mountains and targets wild animals including bears, but now more and more bear hunting is forbidden by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rairu Sugita

Desert of Namibia follows a bipolar young woman who burns the candle at both ends. A portrait of an unidealized Tokyo gen-Z, that surprises with its...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuumi Kawai

A history drama portraying the confrontation between the indigenous Ainu people living on Japan’s northernmost main island—then called...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kanichiro Sato

Famous Japanese chef Obana opens a new restaurant in Paris in the quest for his elusive third Michelin star. But Obana finds life as an outsider in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takuya Kimura

A new film by Hayato Kawai.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsuyoshi Muro

Kaburaki, a photographer for a weekly magazine, exposes a scandal that drives an actress to her death. He falls into a slump but vows to return to...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ryuji Akiyama

In 2012, Atsuya and his 2 childhood friends do something bad and run into an old general store. They decide to stay there until the morning. Late...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Ryosuke Yamada

Jun is a girl whose words have been sealed away so that she cannot hurt anyone with them. But, one day, she is nominated to become an executive...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kento Nakajima

Chiwawa is a popular girl. One day, her dismembered body is found in Tokyo Bay. Chiwawa's friends gather to remember her, but they realize they do...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mugi Kadowaki

In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group called...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mai Kiryu

Looks back 20 years into the past of an elderly woman who died of heatstroke and paints a picture of a solitary woman's genuine despair.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuko Yoshiyuki

The director of a theatre company is in crisis and his actors have lost confidence in him. One day he meets a woman wearing the same shoes as him,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kento Yamazaki

Genre: Action

Cast: Kanichiro Sato

A man has a baby, runs away, then comes back, but he can't just show up, apologize, and hope that makes himself a grown man.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Taiga Nakano

Eiichi wanted to become a top shogi player and attended a shogi player training center run by the Japan Shogi Association. At the training center, he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryo Yoshizawa

Renji Ishibashi, starring in the movie for the first time in 18 years, plays a hero with two faces, a dull novelist and a legendary killer. Susumu...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Renji Ishibashi